The sale of the HarrisWalz.com internet domain—by the same trademark lawyer who sold ClintonKaine.com in 2016—creates little risk of litigation even as it flirts with legal and ethical lines around cybersquatting.
Jeremy Green Eche registered the HarrisWalz domain in 2020, along with several other combinations involving then-prospective vice president Kamala Harris, correctly anticipating she could become a future Democratic Party presidential nominee. On Aug. 6, the day Harris announced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, a buyer paid Eche $15,000 for the domain.
Eche’s maneuvering runs up against federal anti-cybersquatting law, which is designed to prevent bad-faith registrations ...
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